Current Events > Will Metroid go the way of Zelda?

(+) Yeah! (+)

No, Metroid devs actually have some artistic integrity

No, that would lose its entire identity, IMO. Metroid's foundation is finding new abilities to explore areas you couldn't before. Zelda's identity at least started with "explore and find shit to your heart's content."

- Samus has all abilities from the start

If Metroid Prime 4 turns out to be Metroid Tears of the Biosphere, I am done with Nintendo. They burned the final bridge.

I can live without Mario.

No it didn't.

Do you not remember Zelda 1? It dropped you in a world and expected you to figure it out.

I unironically think that Nintendo is giving Metroid the "Breath of the Wold" treatment, but not in the way you described.

What I mean by that is that they are looking to reinvent Metroid with something that is both new and familiar to provide a fresh experience with the franchise, similar to what they did to Odyssey with Mario, Forgotten Land with Kirby, and BotW with Zelda. It would explain why they restarted development. Whatever was attempted before just wasn't giving it that "grand" feeling and they wanted to get it right. It's not every day a company will just scrap a game entirely and start from scratch, and then announcing it to the whole world.

Whether or not people will like the change will be anyone's guess, but I do expect something of a departure from the first three Metroid Primes.

Breath of the Wild was definitely innovative as far as open world games go. "If you see it, you can go there" was often made but never kept promise until BotW. It was true open world in a way that previous open worlds didn't really deliver very well on

Nintendo would have to care about Metroid for that happen.

But none of the places you could see led anywhere that exciting. I mean the Ancient Beast set pieces were fine, I guess. But the world was very bland and weren't hiding anything of substance.

I haven't played TotK, because why would I pay $70 for a repeat of a game I was lukewarm to, but all sources say it is worse in this aspect.

I found most of the places in the game's world to be meaningful and worth exploring though. It's all just a matter of opinion.

I found most of the places in the game's world to be meaningful and worth exploring though. It's all just a matter of opinion.

Yeah, it didn't feel mostly randomized like many open world games. Everything felt like it was handmade and I found a unique area every few minutes of exploring.

You BotW fanboys have no respect for the OG Zelda

You BotW fanboys have no respect for the OG Zelda fans.

I'd almost think this was just weird trolling if I didn't see it so often

I started with Zelda 1 when I was 4 or 5 and grew up playing them all. I don't know what the obsession is with wanting to play OoT in different arrangements for another 20 years but Zelda desperately needed a change. BotW needs some refinement but it's a massive step in the right direction and TotK improved on it further

TotK did make the dungeons more interesting and expanded the enemy variety, but you already said you didn't play it

with no fast travel elevators

4 Meta Ridley bosses with a final Mother Brain boss.

Well it's clear you don't like it and refuse to try to like it, which is cool, it's not for everyone. But this is the formula going forward, better get used to it or stop playing Zelda I guess

But you aren't respecting my right to be disappointed with their abandonment of the spirit of the series, and that shows what kind of people the new Zelda fans are.

Fucking touch grass holy shit dude

No it didn't. Don't lie. Just because I didn't waste $70, that doesn't mean I didn't do research. I already know they made no improvements to the dungeons. Adding lame skydiving set pieces or mine cart games doesn't freshen up the stink

It's gotten out of hand and devolved into trolling and I don't want to endorse that kind of behavior

You're not respecting my wishes. You need to stop posting in this topic.

Link doesn't have all the champions/sages abilities from the start though

It also had more than 8 enemy types.

You BotW fanboys have no respect for the OG Zelda fans. Sure, you enjoy these generic open world games and that's fine. But have some respect. The people that grew up with and loved Zelda have lost it forever. We have the old games, and that's it. The future ones are these unrecognizable dime a dozen open world building simulators, and Nintendo has given up on making true Zelda games. We get it. You guys won. But to those of us that love Zelda, we no longer have that series to look forward to. Why can't you just acknowledge that instead of pretending like everything is better now because you can build a Gundam in this Zelda? (For some reason. Like, why would I ever want to build a giant robot in a fantasy based series?)

Nintendo didn't even regard the rightful criticisms. Why is the combat system still from OoT? Why does the horse still handle so bad? Why are there no dungeons? You're just OK being short changed like this?

All us OG Zelda fans want is for everyone to have a better game. Why are you so hostile to us?

You're spending your weekend bitching about a game you dislike while acting like you're a "real" fan, no one's gonna fall for your bullshit.